Steam has announced the Best of 2025i.e. the ranking of best-selling and most played games on the Valve digital platform, grouped randomly within the classic Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze brackets.
Let’s start with the new releases, therefore the most recent productions with the highest grossing, which in the top 12 of the Platinum category include titles such as Battlefield 6, ARC Raiders, Hollow Knight: SilksongKingdom Come: Deliverance 2, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered e il fenomeno Schedule 1.
The Gold category, which includes the games from thirteenth to twenty-fourth place, sees the presence of names such as Dispatch, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7Assassin’ Creed Shadows, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Dying Light: The Beast, Stellar Blade e Split Fiction.
After two months, ARC Raiders destroys Battlefield 6 in terms of connected users on Steam
In the Silver and Bronze categories, which range from twenty-fifth to one hundredth place, we finally find games like Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, The Last of Us: Parte 2 RemasteredThe Outer Worlds 2, The First Berserker: Khazan, Avowed, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Mafia: Terra Madre, Silent Hill f e Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
The highest grossing
Moving on to the table of best sellers you can consult the top 100 games that have achieved the highest grossing during 2025, but which may also have been published previously. It is therefore not surprising to find names like PUBG: Battlegrounds, which has just arrived on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, Counter-Strike 2, Apex Legends and Marvel Rivals in the Platinum category.
In addition to free-to-play productions, games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 appear in the list, which therefore seems to have registered on Steam takings not dissimilar to those of Battlefield 6 and ARC Raidersalso present in this bracket.
The various ones follow in the Gold category Elden Ring Nightreign, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077EA Sports FC 26, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Helldivers 2, while in the Silver category we find Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Destiny 2, Elden Ring, Forza Horizon 5 and GTA V.
Most played, also on Steam Deck
The table of the most played titles is obviously taken by storm most popular live services everand in fact in the Platinum category there are Apex Legends but also Left 4 Dead 2, Marvel Rivals but also Counter-Strike 2, Delta Force but also Dota 2, in a mix of old and new releases that never cease to involve users.
There is naturally also a table dedicated to most played titles on Steam Deck in 2025and it is interesting to note that these are almost exclusively single player experiences: from Red Dead Redemption 2 to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, from Hades to Cyberpunk 2077, from Baldur’s Gate 3 to Hollow Knight: Silksong, passing through Elden Ring, Balatro and Vampire Survivors.
